Variety reports: Michelle Buteau slammed Dave Chappelle and his controversial jokes about the transgender community in her new comedy special “Michelle Buteau: A Buteau-ful Mind at Radio City Music Hall,” which debuted Tuesday on Netflix. Buteau began criticizing Chappelle after telling a story about her “Black lesbian friend.” She noted the subject matter elicited a spectrum of reactions from the …

Another action-packed year has come and gone for this here website thingy, which in a few months will mark its 21st anniversary. Which just seems…impossible. The last 12 months we saw an unprecedented number of anti-LGBTQ bills, some of which were spawned by the same hate groups that have antagonized us for decades. Most of those bills targeted our trans brothers …

The Independent reports: Right-wing billionaire Elon Musk has changed his name to “Kekius Maximus” on X, the social media platform he owns. The world’s richest man changed his name on X on Tuesday and updated his profile photo to an edited picture of “Pepe the Frog,” a meme that has been co-opted by hate groups. As he changed his name …

Florida Politics reports: People in Florida today, regardless of their immigration status, have a right to seek civil action under the 14th Amendment’s “due process” clause. That could change under a new proposal from outgoing state Rep. Joel Rudman. Rudman, a Navarre Republican who is leaving office to run for Congress, just filed legislation (HB 71) to ban any “unauthorized …

The New York Daily News reports: Mayor Adams warned Curtis Sliwa and the Guardian Angels to stay in their lane as the volunteer vigilante group said they would resume subway patrols in the wake of a woman who was killed after being set on fire on a Brooklyn F train. “If Curtis wants to be back down in the subway …

Gallup reports: Americans foresee a somewhat challenging year ahead for the country, based on their predictions for various aspects of U.S. affairs and daily life. Majorities of U.S. adults think 2025 will be a year of political conflict, economic difficulty, international discord, increasing power for China and Russia, and a rising federal budget deficit. However, there is at least some …

The Kyiv Independent reports: Russia is dissatisfied with the reported peace deal proposals on Ukraine from U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s team, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Dec. 29, according to state-owned TASS. Earlier reports from the Wall Street Journal indicated that Trump’s team is considering a plan to delay Ukraine’s NATO membership by at least 20 years in …

CNN reports: Congress has never before tried to certify a presidential election without a House speaker in place, and Republicans across Washington are privately trying to game out what might happen if that scenario were to arise. So far, GOP lawmakers and senior advisers say they have found no clear options to certify Trump’s win without a speaker, according to …

“This is about money and power. It’s not about race. It’s not about gender. It’s not about ethnicity. It’s not about religion. That’s what they want you to believe it is. You’re like a bucket of crabs at each other’s throat. That’s about money and power. Screw you! We don’t care what you do on Twitter. “We love converts. Hell, …

The New York Times reports: A Virginia man was arrested this month with what federal prosecutors described in court papers on Monday as the largest cache of “finished explosive devices” ever found in the F.B.I.’s history. The man, Brad Spafford, was taken into custody at a farm outside Norfolk on Dec. 17 on the basis of a single-count criminal complaint …

CBS News reports: In helping instigate a heated debate over H-1B visas, Elon Musk is speaking both from personal experience and as a business owner. That’s because his company, electric car maker Tesla, is among the U.S. companies that bring thousands of foreign engineers and other skilled workers into the U.S. each year. After not placing in the top 25 …

“This is the problem when you when you when you allow for a billionaire to make a $200 million donation. And so maybe we really do need to have campaign finance regulations in this country. “I mean, essentially, what what is happening — and I love President Trump, I’m not saying that President Trump is bought and paid for — …

Bloomberg News reports: The world’s 500 richest people got vastly richer in 2024, with Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Jensen Huang leading the group of billionaires to a new milestone: A combined $10 trillion net worth. An indomitable rally in US technology stocks played a key role in turbocharging the trio’s wealth, as well as the fortunes of Larry Ellison, …

The Hill reports: Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) said Tuesday that Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) does not have the votes to keep the gavel and that he remains undecided on whether he can support the Louisiana Republican in the Friday floor vote, despite President-elect Trump endorsing Johnson. “I remain undecided, as do a number of my colleagues, because we saw so …

“The working class said, no, we will not cheer as you sell off our children’s futures, and they elected Donald Trump to say no to that. And what did the left do? The left immediately started to call them racist. You are a racist if you oppose the selling out of your children’s future for the enrichment of the leftist …

“When I think back on 2024, one word comes to mind – REVIVAL. We saw the REVIVAL of common sense as We The People soundly rejected the lawfare, destructive policies, and identity politics of the left. “We saw a spiritual REVIVAL take place on college campuses across America as many of our nation’s youth proudly declared Jesus Christ as their …

Colorado Politics reports: Thanking the Almighty for the death of a 100-year-old man best known for building houses and farming peanuts is a step beyond even most of the uncharitable eulogies we’ve seen from anyone in the barely a day since former President Carter’s death. Rep. Matt Soper has a reputation as one of the more intellectual members of the …

The New York Times reports: A sweeping blackout hit Puerto Rico early Tuesday morning, plunging nearly all of the island into darkness on New Year’s Eve. As of 10:20 a.m. Eastern, only 13 percent of Puerto Rico’s 1.4 million utility customers had power, according to the tracking page of Luma Energy, which supplies power to the U.S. territory. The company …

From a Breitbart article just shared by Trump: The Europeans have long relied on the U.S. for their defense, a reliance made all the more acute since the Russian attack on Ukraine. This is the artful deal Trump sees: The U.S. taking Greenland in compensation for continuing to defend Europe. Greenland’s natural resources are worth many trillions; future drillers and …

CNN reports: In the week ending December 21, there was nearly three times as much Covid-19 circulating in the US than there was during the week ending December 7, CDC data shows. This surge happened in all regions of the country, but there has been a particularly sharp uptick in the Midwest, where Covid-19 levels are nearly twice as high …